the Southern Coast of Chiapas" (1875); "Correspondence of the Mexican Legation at Washington during the French Intervention" (9 vols., 1870-'85 ; Historical Sketch of the Annexation of Chiapas and Soconusco to Mexico" (1877); and "Coffee and India-Rubber Culture in Mexico" (1898).
ROMEYN, Theodoric (called Dirck) (ro-mine'),
clergyman, b. in Hackensack, N. J., 12 June, 1744;
d. in Schenectady, N. Y., 16 April, 1804. His
ancestor, Claas Janse, a native of Holland,
emigrated to this country from Rotterdam in 1661.
Dirck was graduated at Princeton in 1765, studied
theology, and was ordained in 1766, subsequently
becoming pastor of the Reformed Dutch churches
in Hackensack and Schraalenburgh, N. J. During
the Revolution he suffered from the depredations
of the British, but continued to serve his
congregation at great personal risk. He declined
the presidency of Rutgers in 1784, and again in
1791, became pastor of the church in Schenectady,
N. Y., in May of the former year, and
continued in that charge until his death. He was one
of the founders of the academy that subsequently
became Union college, and from 1797 till 1804 was
professor of theology in the general synod of the
Reformed Dutch church. Rutgers gave him the
degree of D. D. in 1789. — His brother, John
Brodhead, clergyman, b. in Marbletown, Ulster co.,
N. Y., 8 Nov., 1777; d. in New York city, 22 Feb.,
1825, was graduated at Columbia in 1795, and in
1798 was licensed to preach. He became pastor of
the Reformed Dutch church in Rhinebeck, N. Y.,
in 1799, and of the Presbyterian church in
Schenectady in 1803, was in charge of the church in
Albany for the succeeding four years, and then
accepted the charge of the Cedar street church, New
York city, which he held until his death. Princeton
gave him the degree of D. D. in 1809. Dr.
Romeyn was one of the most popular preachers of
his day, and an able theologian. He declined calls
to numerous wealthy parishes, and the presidencies
of Transylvania university and Dickinson college.
He was one of the founders of Princeton theological
seminary, a trustee of that institution and of
Princeton college, and at the age of thirty-three
was moderator of the general assembly of the
Presbyterian church. He published a large number of
occasional discourses, which were collected and
republished (2 vols., New York, 1816). — Dirck's nephew,
Nicholas, physician, b. in Hackensack, N. J.,
in September, 1756; d. in New York city, 21 July,
1817, wrote his family name Romayne. He was
the son of a silversmith, and received great
educational advantages. At the beginning of the
Revolution he went to Edinburgh, where he was known
as an able scholar, and took the degree of M. D.,
presenting a thesis entitled “De Generatione Puris,”
which was at one time famous. He subsequently
studied in Paris, London, and Leyden, and on his
return settled in Philadelphia, and then in New York
city, where he practised his profession. He
embarked in the William Blount conspiracy in
instigating the Cherokee and Creek Indians to aid the
British in their attempt to conquer the Spanish
territory in Louisiana in 1797, was seized and
imprisoned, and subsequently again visited Europe.
He was the first president of the New York medical
society, and of the New York college of physicians
and surgeons, of which he was a founder, and
in which he taught anatomy and the institutes of
medicine. Dr. John W. Francis says of him: “He
was unwearied in toil and of mighty energy,
dexterous in legislative bodies, and at one period of
his career was vested with almost all the honors the
medical profession can bestow.” He published an
address before the students of the New York
college of physicians and surgeons on “The Ethnology
of the Red Man in America” (New York, 1808).
— Nicholas's brother, Jeremiah (Romeyn), clergyman,
b. in New York city, 24 Dec., 1768; d. in
Woodstock, Ulster co., N. Y., 17 July, 1818, was
educated by Dr. Peter Wilson in Hackensack,
N. J., studied theology under Dr. Dirck Romeyn,
and was pastor successively of Dutch Reformed
churches in Livingston Manor and Red Hook,
N. Y., from 1788 till 1806, after which he took
charge of the church in Harlem till 1814. He was
an eminent, linguist, and from 1797 till his death
was professor of Hebrew in the Dutch Reformed
church. — Another nephew of Dirck, James Van
Campen, clergyman, b. in Minisink, N. Y., 14
Nov., 1765; d. in Hackensack, N. J., 27 June, 1840,
was educated at Schenectady academy, studied
theology under his uncle Dirck, and was ordained
in 1787. From 1788 till 1799 he was pastor of the
Reformed Dutch church of Greenbush, N. Y., having
charge also of the churches of Schosack and
Wynantskill, N. Y., at different periods. In 1799-1834
he was pastor of the united congregations of
the Dutch Reformed church in Hackensack and
Sehraalenburgh, N. J. He was a trustee of
Rutgers from 1807 till his death, and one of the most
successful collectors for the theological professional
fund. He published an “Address to the Students
of the Theological Seminary.” — James Van
Campen's son, James, clergyman, b. in Greenbush,
N. Y., in 1797; d. in New Brunswick, N. J., 7 Sept.,
1859, was graduated at Columbia in 1816, licensed
to preach in 1819, and was successively pastor of
Reformed Dutch churches in Nassau, N. Y., Six
Mile Run and Hackensack, N. J., Catskill, N. Y.,
Leeds, N. Y., and Bergen Neck, N. J. He abandoned
preaching in 1852 on account of the failure of his
health. Columbia gave him the degree of S. T. D.
in 1838, but he refused it. He published “The
Crisis,” a sermon (New Brunswick, 1842), and a
“Plea for the Evangelical Press” (1843). — His son,
Theodore Bayard, clergyman, b. in Nassau, N. Y.,
22 Oct., 1827; d. in Hackensack, N. J., 29 Aug.,
1885, was graduated at Rutgers in 1846, and at the
New Brunswick theological seminary in 1849. He
was pastor of the Reformed Dutch church in Blaw-
enburg, N. J., in 1850-'65, and from the latter
date until his death of the 1st Reformed church
at Hackensack. Rutgers gave him the degree of
D. D. in 1869. He contributed regularly to the
religious press, and, besides sermons and addresses,
published “Historical Discourse on the Reopening
and Dedication of the 1st Reformed (Dutch) Church
at Hackensack, N. J., May 2, 1869” (New York,
1870), and “The Adaptation of the Reformed
Church in America to American Character” (1876).
See “Memorial,” published by the consistory (New
York, 1885).
RONAYNE, Maurice, clergyman, b. in Castle-martyr, County Cork, Ireland, in 1828. He was educated by private tutors, and at Carlow college, and entered the ecclesiastical college of Maynooth, but left before completing his course in theology, and became a Jesuit in 1853. He finished his theological studies in Laval seminary, France, and came to the United States in 1856. He taught in St. John's college, Fordham, and in St. Francis Xavier's, New York, up to 1868, and then went to Rome, returning in the following year. He is at present (1898) professor of history in St. Francis Xavier's college. He has written articles in Roman Catholic publications, and especially in the Philadelphia " Catholic Quarterly Review," principally on the labor question, and on the social and moral
